Why the sudden rush to judgment on Syria?

September 11, 2013

To war, or not to war with Syria, that is the question. Apparently, political correctness doesn't permit admins to call it a war, though we are bombing a country, apart from their permission and they consider it war of some sort. While I understand our desire to prevent use of nasty chemical weapons, Syria never signed up to the treaty. We've known about their undesirable use of chemical weapons for more than two years, so why the rush to judgement now?

Whatever we come up with - we don't want another Egypt-like fiasco where a worse regime comes to power that is even more dangerous to us and our allies such as Israel. Some reports are indicating we are aiding al-Qaeda extremists to take over Syria.

For the people that hate us - why not let them war it out amongst themselves - and when they've had enough, maybe the remainder will strive for peace and freedom? Why waste expensive missiles, which we could save when a real serious war comes, if all we are going to do is a big show of firepower but not really accomplish much. Assad being the mastermind to quell a rebellion for the overthrow of his government, Obama is telling us (allegedly) is not the focus, and Obama promises no regime change.

But do the Syrians as well as others sincerely believe that, knowing Obama's record of calling for regime change not only for Syria, but many other Muslim countries around the world, really is secretly desiring regime change?

There are other means to punish rather than through bombing. Such bombing often doesn't win hearts, but harbors enemies and revenge - and are we positioned and ready to handle the longterm fall-out? One of our most important priorities is to protect the homeland from the many terrorists and their sympathizers that have already been allowed to cross our border and too often illegally.

How many nation-building fights do we need to be involved with? Is Congress too afraid, lazy, inept, irresponsible as a whole to answer these tough questions? Are they going to just let the executive branch run riot? We should remember Vice President Biden when he was in Congress threatened Bush with impeachment if Bush didn't first obtain the approval of Congress for war matters in Iraq and Afghanistan!